INTRODUCTION
AIR-CLINIC is the first healthcare facility built on the steem blockchain. Our aim is to decentralize healthcare thereby leading to less central control and increased functionality of the medical sector gloablly. The best part of it is that everyone will get rewarded for living healthy lives (or helping others do same). Join us as we detail the hows and whys below.
BRIEF HISTORY OF AIR-CLINIC
Air-Clinic was founded by a core team of two health-experts and a health-enthusiast who felt the need to effect considerable changes in the way the healthcare sector is handled. The Medical team is lead by Dr. George Edeh & Dr. Blessing Imade Ogbonnaya while the Project Team is lead by Mr. Ejemai.
We started off on a DISCORD COMMUNITY consisting of health-experts, health-workers, and clients. We organize daily health discussions, provide consultation services for clients, provide post-promotion channels and also provide a platform for familiarization between all of these different sets of people.
However, what we are doing is beyond DISCORD, that’s why we are building a world class website to carter to all the needs we must fill globally. In the nearest future we will have an APP for mobile device users to access us easily.
OUR CONTACTS
- WEBSITE: https://airclinic.co
- ALTERNATIVE DOMAIN: https://airclinic.io
- STEEMIT BLOG: https://steemit.com/@air-clinic
- DISCORD: https://discord.gg/rqded5m
- FACEBOOK: AIR Clinic
- EMAIL: airsteemclinic@gmail.com
- GITHUB REPOSITORY: https://github.com/AIR-CLINIC/Air-Clinic
WHY DECENTRALIZE HEALTHCARE
The ongoing negative trend has been the politicization of healthcare. Take the political gaming involved in making & breaking ObamaCare in America as an example. Perhaps politicians don't realize that every action they take (or don't take) directly affect life. Or maybe they do but selfish ambitions always stand in the way of good deeds? We have made them gods that decide who lives and who dies. Is it supposed to be so?
Also there are issues of high cost of healthcare, inequitable distribution, slow hospital processes, long distances to the sources of healthcare etc. These and many other reasons inspires us to decentralize the health sector.
With decentralization, everyone understands their role and everyone plays it well. A hospital for example will deliver healthcare to the patients straight without middlemen. The blockchain's openledger helps increase transparency and its trustlessness improves services delivery.
Using cryptocurrencies to pay for healthcare is the future of medicine. This avails medicine of the opportunities abundant in this digital money era. No we will not miss out in the blockchain technology.
We are particularly interested in the Steem blockchain. We have seen everything that has been done on it including Utopian, DTube, DSound, DLive, etcz. This is not just another emptily lofty project. No!
AIR-CLINIC brings professionalism and professionals to the blockchain. Healthcare workers are known to deeply care and give all they have for saving lives. Our team is headed by two of them as well as another health-enthusiast who believes that Steem has a love node.
The advantages of decentralizing heathcare via the steem blockchain far outweigh the disadvantages if any at all. We are in for the long haul. Let's do this!
OUR VISION
We see a world where a major percentage of all people will be healthy because of the ease of access to healthcare. The good thing is that people will be rewarded for living healthy lives and teaching others how to live healthy too.
OUR MISSION
- To decentralize healthcare
- To provide easy, quick and affordable access to healthcare for everyone globally regardless of socioeconomic and personal barriers
- To create a community of health experts, health enthusiasts and clients who can support each other for the sake of healthy living.
- To increase the collaboration between health experts of different specialties and locations.
- To provide a better, faster, more efficient method of payment for hospital transactions.
- To remove middlemen and bottlenecks in healthcare access.
- To reward everyone who contributes positively to the advancement of healthcare worldwide.
OUR STRONG POINTS
WE ARE QUICK:
- Most hospitals (especially the public ones) are known for their snail-like approach to patient care. Long queues, client embarrassment and rushed consultations are the norm.
- We are changing that with quick and straight-to-the-point services. Doctors and other healthcare workers are on call 24/7 to answer your health questions and satisfy your health needs.
WE ARE ACCESSIBLE:
- You can reach us on this website and also on our DISCORD with just your phone. In due time we will have dedicated APPs just for AIR-CLINIC’s services.
- Even our offline healthcare services will reach all nooks and crannies efficiently.
WE ARE AFFORDABLE:
- The high costs of healthcare is preventing many persons from accessing healthcare when necessary. Only the rich get optimum care.
- We are combating that by using the STEEM BLOCKCHAIN to subsidize medicare. We also have a healthcare Foundation that will provide free services to the underprivileged in the society.
- We also give rewards to clients who write testimonials and lessons they have learnt and applied during their treatments.
WE ARE GLOBAL:
- Gone are the days when healthcare is limited by location on the map. Our services make it easy for a client in India to consult with a doctor in USA.
- In cases where foreign referrals are needed for further investigations or treatment, it becomes easy when all the facilities and human resources are already inter-linked.
WE REMOVE MIDDLEMEN & UNDUE BOTTLENECKS FROM ACCESSING HEALTHCARE
- Too many cooks they say spoil the broth. There are a lot of middle men sucking resources and slowing down the processes. Politicizing healthcare is also a cog in its wheel.
- We are bringing real change with the force of decentralization. Healthcare will now be delivered straight to the clients in a quick and non-stressful manner.
WE REWARD CONTRIBUTIONS TO HEALTHCARE & THE MEDICAL FIELD
- Well I guess you have never heard that before but we are doing that. There are too many great men and women who have made medical practice what it is today but many died unnoticed and unappreciated.
- We are going to give incentives to people to live healthy lives and spread optimum healthcare practices.
WE ARE MAKING PUBLIC HEALTH EASY
- Physical Outreaches, use of mass media, print media, television, radio etc to promote health will be easier because of the internet.
- Besides word of mouth will spread the goodnews faster than all those popular media soon.
OUR SERVICES
ONLINE MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS:
This is the crux of our services. We have built a world class website where you can consult healthcare experts of different specialties globally for any type of ailment.
Our service providers are on call 24/7 awaiting your call. Once they receive it, they consult with you and get you the best solutions for the situation.
Commonly used resources include;
- Text Chat, Voice Chat, Video Chat, Graphs and Charts
- Referral system: It will be easy for a medical practitioner to refer a client to another expert who either has more experience or is more specialized in a particular field.
OFFLINE MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS:
Online services alone will not be enough to allow us to give that wholistic approach in managing our patients. When we encounter cases that we can’t handle via the online means alone or in cases of emergency, we will have to use the offline method.
In this scenario, we will be the “medical matchmakers” connecting health service experts and providers to clients who require these services in a speed of light manner. Think of us as the medical version of Uber or AirBnB.
To allow us achieve this aim of “bringing hospitals to people”, we index health-experts, service providers, healthcare centers, emergency services on our server based on location. This will happen after verification of these services and individuals for quality through our criteria.
So when we get a got/beep, the available healthcare providers in the nearest location would be contacted to provide the service immediately. The following fields will be indexed.
- INDEXING HEALTH EXPERTS- DOCTORS (Specialist and General Practitioner), Nurses, optometrists, physiotherapists, dieticians, pharmacists, medical laboratory scientists, etc
- INDEXING HOSPITALS. Enough of long queues in hospitals because people go to hospitals. We are bringing hospitals to people. We choose the nearest available hospital that can provide a service based on the case at hand.
- INDEXING LABORATORY SERVICES.
- INDEXING PHARMACEUTICALS.
- INDEXING EMERGENCY SERVICES. There is too much time wasted by emergency services in providing services because of its centralized nature. We will change that by decentralizing that sector so that the nearest ambulance to an emergency will be called.
REWARDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MEDICAL SECTOR:
- There’s no well organized body that curates medical research, health-related journals and achievements. This is where we come in;
- We would reward health-experts, enthusiasts and clients who have contributed to the improvement of medical care in the following ways:
- Articles, Essays, Researches etc
- Client Testimonials and lessons after consultation
- Outstanding public service in known medical bodies
- Medical science discoveries of medicines, new techniques, new surgeries, new knowledge, new observations etcx
LABORATORY SERVICES IN ASSOCIATION WITH MAJOR LABORATORIES GLOBALLY:
- We link up our clients with the appropriate medical laboratory that will provide the investigations needed for further diagnosis and expert management of the case.
- Like was mentioned earlier, we index Medical Laboratories and Medical Laboratory scientists, radiographers, pathologists, radiologists etcz.
SUPPLY OF ESSENTIAL MEDICINES IN ASSOCIATION WITH MAJOR PHARCEUTICALS GLOBALLY:
- We use our doctor’s prescription to find out the appropriate drugs. But we don’t just allow the client to go source it by him/herself. This is where many people go wrong because they could get the wrong prescriptions over-the-counter. Sometimes medications are even expired and the client doesn’t know.
- We link up with standard pharmaceuticals worldwide to provide the needed medicines at affordable rates better than they could have been gotten outside our services and quality is guaranteed.
- Our indexed pharmacists, pharmaceutical technicians and pharmaceutical companies will come in handy here.
STORAGE & RETRIEVAL OF MEDICAL RECORDS ON THE BLOCKCHAIN
- First of all, this doesn’t exist anywhere else right now! We want to change that. There are many problems with the traditional system of keeping patient case notes in hospitals only. The client will not be able to access his/her own records easily. Sometimes these documents are lost forever and many years of consulting healthcare becomes in vain.
- Besides when a person needs to be referred, their records will need to be photocopied first and sent to the new doctor managing the case. All those long processes become easy if there is a decentralized platform for storing these files.
- It means Dr. A in Nigeria will see what Dr. B in UK has prescribed for a given client. The clients too can equally retrieve his/her notes for future references.
AIR FOUNDATION TO REACHOUT TO THE UNDER-PRIVELEDGED GLOBALLY
- Despite all these many services, we know some under-privileged ones who do not have access to quality healthcare or the internet could still miss it.
- On that note, we will organize rural outreaches on a global scale to reach out to them and provide solutions.
- We source for funds via donations from willing individuals who want their money to work for them.
OUR REVENUE SOURCES & REWARD SCHEDULES
We are looking at the following sources of revenues:
- PAYMENTS FROM OUR CLIENTS FOR TREATMENT
- SPONSORS, ICO, SMTs
- SHARES FROM CONTRIBUTION REWARDS
- FUND RAISING & DONATIONS
- SHARES FROM OUR PARTNERS (HOSPITALS, PHARMACIES, LABORATORIES etc)
The following sets of people will receive rewards from us:
- OUR CORE TEAM
- OUR SPONSORS
- OUR HEALTH EXPERTS
- CONTRIBUTORS OF ESSAYS, ARTICLES, RESEARCHES etc (FOR HEALTH EXPERTS & ENTHUSIASTS)
- OUR CLIENTS WHO DO TESTIMONIALS & LESSONS etc.
- OUR PARTNERS
The sharing formular is outlined in a more detailed accounting document.
OUR ROADMAP
In a few years time, AIR-CLINIC will be playing a very dominant role in increasing accessibility to healthcare for everyone, everywhere. Here are our plans of action in time;
FIRST 4 WEEKS: ✓
- SETUP DISCORD COMMUNITY for health-experts, health-enthusiasts and clients.
- SETUP STEEMIT ACCOUNT
4-20 WEEKS:
- BEGIN BUILDING A WEBSITE
- Get ALPHA & BETA TESTERS
- FIX BUGS
12-24 WEEKS:
- RAISE FUNDS
- GET SPONSORS
24-30 WEEKS:
- 1st PHASE OF PROMOTIONS- Steemit, Discord Channels, Medium.com, Facebook Page Promo, Instagram Account, Twitter Account, Online Newspaper & Magazines
30 - 40 WEEKS:
- BUILD AN APP FOR DECENTRALIZED HEALTHCARE
- GET ALPHA & BETA TESTERS
- FIX BUGS
30-45 WEEKS:
- 2nd PHASE OF PROMOTIONS- Offline Media, Television, Radio, Hard Print Newspapers & Magazines
40 - 45 WEEKS:
- CONNECTIONS with alliances; HOSPITALS, GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICALS, MEDICAL LABORATORIES etc.
50-60 WEEKS:
- SMTS/ICOs
- MORE FUND RAISING & SPONSORS
CONCLUSION
We believe we have given you a good glimpse into the seriousness of #AIR-CLINIC's vision and ambition. What we are doing is for eternity. We want it to stand a test of time. With trusworthiness, service and transparency, we are erecting our dreams for a better world into reality.
Did we hear you say its impossible? Yes, we know we can do the impossible because we are on the Steem Blockchain. Here all worthwhile dreams come to pass.
Every sector of the world deserves to be decentralized and open-source. Let's build a medical world that will truly provide healthcare for everyone, everywhere.
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